Immigrants and Natives in U.S. Science and Engineering Occupations, 1994-2006.
Between 1994 and 2006, the ratio of foreign-born scientists and engineers (FSE) to native scientists and engineers (NSE) doubled. I decompose this change into a migration effect (which accounts for migration in general), a proportional college effect (which accounts for the relative proportions of c...
| Published in: | Demography Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 801 - 821 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
August 2010
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